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When Thierry Henry retired last year, the New York Red Bulls lost not only one of MLS’s more skilled players, but also his more than 1.5 million social media followers.
Two months later, just a few weeks before the start of the 2015 season, Tim Cahill’s contract was mutually voided. W...

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Columbus Crew SC is a team of many firsts. A charter member of MLS, its home stadium was the first soccer-specific venue built for one of the league’s teams. It was the first major league franchise to operate in Columbus, and it was the first team to bring a pro championship home to the city. ...

Holding a microphone and a glass of wine, Aspire Group CEO Bernie Mullin recounted the hurdles he faced as president and CEO of the Denver Grizzlies minor league hockey team during the team’s 1994-95 launch, its lone season in Colorado. Mullin addressed a room full of former Grizzlies staff an ...

In a suite set right along the blue line, Harry Barkett and a group of family and friends are among the more than 19,000 in attendance for an early round playoff game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Detroit Red Wings.
Barkett is unlike most others wearing Lightning blue this Saturday nigh ...

The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have retained Legends to market the clubs’ proposed Carson, Calif., stadium, according to Carmen Policy, who is managing the project for the teams.
The hire is conditional on the teams deciding to move to Los Angeles and the NFL approving the reloc ...

With San Diego Chargers Chairman Dean Spanos set to meet with city and county leaders this week, the last ditch effort being made to keep the team from moving to Los Angeles appears unlikely to bear fruit in its current state.
According to reports prepared for the team by outside firms and obtain ...

There’s a chef carving turkey at the Bridge Club, just steps from the court inside Oracle Arena, and servers pour all the Dehlinger chardonnay and Radio-Coteau pinot noir you want to drink. When the Golden State Warriors leave their locker room, you can watch through one-way glass as they run ...

Joe Lacob’s collegial model for running the Golden State Warriors has sports franchise roots directly across San Francisco Bay.
In 1992, a group of some two dozen Bay Area businessmen — including Walter Shorenstein, Charles Johnson, Peter Magowan and Larry Baer — pooled their re ...

The Milwaukee Bucks are set for a summer of rebranding, further remaking a franchise that already seems long-removed from the Herb Kohl ownership era that ended just last year.
Under new owners Marc Lasry and Wes Edens, who bought the team from Kohl for $500 million last May, the Bucks have spent ...

Rob Hale admits that buying the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse was more of a passion play, which makes him like a lot of professional team owners. But he also sees a long-term growth potential that makes him feel like he got in on the grou ...

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